Definition of "steed" [steed]

• A horse, especially a spirited one. (noun)

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• "Maybe a gift of a blood-red steed is a coded message to go to Hell."
• "If thou can lift me on horseback and mount thee behind me and bring me to my own land, thou shalt have honour in this world and a reward on the day of band calling to band,92 for I have no strength left to steady myself; and if this be my last day, the steed is thine alway, for thou art worthier of him than any other."
• "If this (as it ought) bee granted, then how venterous are those women that dare venter to doe otherwise, and so to refuse, and by refusing to dispise that order, which the most wise and allmighty God hath appointed, and in steed thereof to chuse their owne pleasures?"